Fine bubbles rising through turquoise underwater light

A different failure behind each system, and a place carrying the cost.

Each system starts from one way water, soil or air fails, with somebody already paying for it, and each has its own name, site and kind of client. The marine duties are modes of a single platform, the same hull tasked to whatever the bay needs. Each is a system, and a system is not a company you can hire; operating companies deliver them.

The base platform

SeaBreather

A novel-class service vessel. Intake, reactor and discharge ride on the hull, so the treatment works comes alongside the problem under its own power and the water is worked where it lies.

Its own duties are oxygen restoration through a depleted water column, a short sharp oxygen boost where stock is held, and thermal load. Breaking a cap answers a hot spot with an edge; a nanobubble cloud on the surface answers heat arriving as light. Neither ends the regional event overhead. Each of the other marine systems is a mode this platform runs, not a second fleet.

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SeaBreather
A SeaBreather vessel running at speed, dark hull with azure trim, spray coming off the quarter
One hull under way. Gas handling, the reactor and the outlet all ride on it, so the treatment leaves the quay.

Why these problems and not others

Each one answers a documented, expensive problem.

Each failure is already measured by an agency, priced by an industry, and on somebody's budget line as a recurring loss.

2 mg/L The dissolved-oxygen line below which most aquatic life cannot hold on — the problem SeaBreather exists for NOAA NCCOS
US$97.5m Lost Dungeness crab landings from the 2015 West Coast bloom, plus about $40m in razor-clam tourism NOAA Fisheries
48% Share of world desalinated water output produced in the Middle East and North Africa region Jones et al., Science of the Total Environment, 2019
1,381 Mha Salt-affected soils worldwide, 10.7 percent of global land area, with about a tenth of cropland touched FAO, Global status of salt-affected soils

From system to service

A system is a license. A program is a subscription.

No system can be bought from Sophia Delta. Each becomes available once an operating company puts crew, capital and a regulator behind it.

Sophia Delta owns the system and licenses it to an operating company against conditions: proper use of the technology, a standard of care, compliance with whichever regulator has jurisdiction, and a service agreement the operator can stand behind. The operator builds or charters the platform, certifies the crew, secures gas and permits, and sells better water: an outcome inside a service zone drawn on a chart, on a subscription that does not pause between events.

A project ends. A program keeps running, full time, against parameters set before any system reaches the water. No two come out alike.

Stressors accumulate whether or not anyone watches them, and a program that never lets up keeps a water body off the far end of that curve, more cheaply than being called in once it is there. A subscription ends on performance outside the agreed spec, or a client who is not satisfied once the minimum period has been served.

Alarivean, Inc. holds one of those licenses and is currently the one running programs. A second licensee would contract in its own name, in its own jurisdiction, against the same obligations.

How licensing, jurisdiction and liability are arranged

Aquatic Prosperity as a Service

Which of these matches your water?

Describe the water and the season and let the operating company tell you. Sometimes no instrument here is the right one.